Recently visited a very attractive Welsh fishing village called New Quay. The drive along the coast offered spectacular views, and from the village's harbour you could look back up the coastline for miles. But the sky was heavy, visibility was poor and I wasn't having any joy getting any wide landscape shots. So I turned to some of the objects closer to hand and shot some close ups of the fishing and boating tools on the harbour. What do you think? These pictures were spontaneous, but were processed in Lightroom using the Strong Contrast setting, which I think has a good effect.

These are some very intresting shots, i think i m going to go for number 1 and number two on this one. As you stated you whent to a fishing town those shots are the ones that remind me the most of afishing town that i used to go to all the time when i was younger. Seeing the crab and the nets and just the plaine old mess!! (Was the crab alive?)

You didnt get any shots of the whole harbour itself would be intresting to take alook at those even tho you might not think they where great shots. I think i m going to enjoy those shots if they got those litte older boats, with some colour to them...

Those images can be fixed witha lill post processing, if you dont mind i can take a go at them, see what i come up with...its great practice for me

Please do, I'm always aware that I should be able to do something about skies that are too dark or too light, but the attempts I've made so far just end up looking hugely unrealistic, so a good way to improve this sort of pic is definitely something I'd like to pick up.